There are a few dependencies on various data files. For example www-site does depend on the incubator's podlings.xml which is a hand edited file managed by the IPMC. This gets broken from time to time.
> On Feb 14, 2024, at 12:56 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The most recent example was build failures in www-site when Whimsy was > unavailable. > > I thought it would be simple to implement a cache, given how easy it > is to do it so on some other build systems (e.g. the comdev-site > Jenkins job which runs on Cloudbees). > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 08:35, Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote: >> >> Sebb, what is the real world problem we are trying to address? Do we have >> Pelican builds taking too much time causing trouble for certain projects? >> Do we have expensive network bills due to frequent downloads? >> >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to pass data between runs of Buildbot Pelican builds? >>> >>> This would be useful for caching data that has to be fetched from >>> elsewhere, in case the remote site is down. >>> >>> Or for data that is expensive to generate but changes infrequently. >>> >>> Sebb >>>
